Being a father is never easy. It is much more than simply getting up, going to work, and bringing home a paycheck to make sure that you keep a roof over your head and food on the table. Being a father also means living with integrity; being a man of open honor and honesty. Some of the greatest lessons I learned from my father came not from what he said, but what he did. Our children watch our every step to see how we live our lives and whether or not our walk matches our talk. The legacy we leave is seen in how they eventually walk themselves.
How can we be sure to be filled with all the fullness of God? If we are already Christians we follow Paul's example and start with prayer. If you aren’t…
We live in a world of constantly changing values. Because of this, we need our own North Star by which to steer our ship of faith so that we value…
When you hear the word “mystery” what does your mind generally turn to? When I was a young teenager, I enjoyed reading a series of mysteries known as the “The…
If you are an elder, a leader, an overseer of a congregation of Christians you are one of “God’s stewards” and as Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 4:2, “it is…
At the end of the Old Testament, the prophet Malachi gives the mission of John the Baptist, foretells Christ’s first coming, and strongly encourages Israel to return to God. Those…
Jesus calls each of us to ask ourselves what we are doing with our money? Actually, it is not “our” money it is His which He has loaned to us…
Have you ever in a conversation had someone say to you, “Remember when ...” in an effort to call to your mind a past event. Perhaps you have said, “No,…
Every single one of us either has been or still is . . . a. Dead in trespasses and sins b. Enslaved to Satan, the world and our own fleshly…
“But we had to celebrate and rejoice, for this brother of yours was dead and has begun to live, and was lost and has been found.” (Luke 15:32, NASB95) In…